Mosher v. City of Dayton

Appellants contend (1) that the ordinance in question infringes upon the right of the people to bear arms and, therefore, violates Section 4, Article I2 of the *247Ohio Constitution, and (2) violates the Second Amendment3 to the United States Constitution. We disagree with appellants’ contentions.

The ordinance does not deprive any individual of the protection of Section 4, Article I of the Ohio Constitution. All that the ordinance requires is that the person seeking to possess a handgun he identified under the provisions of the ordinance. In State v. Neito (1920), 101 Ohio St. 409, 130 N. E. 663,…